And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

...and when is enough proof enough?

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

I would rather live 10 years doing what I Love, than drag through Life 50 years, hating every day I Live.-RVM

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

I like to make movies about how people actually live, realistically.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.