Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.