Age will flatten a man.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

If you have a smash hit record or something that's quirky or funny or cool, people are going to go after it.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.