Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

I don't like movies that are morally simple.

I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

Always remember, difficult situations are thrust upon those who have the power to influence events.

Greatness should have no victimsGreatness should need no victims.

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

I can assure you full immunity is not on the table. But your hand is.

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.