A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Fear is a fine spur.

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism.

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs.

The material dictates the approach.

"If you're a Republican Party that's fairing poorly, sometimes you have to win ugly.