Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Some men just want to watch the world burn

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

If you have time, you need a vision. If you have money you need a purpose.

Don’t you have someone else to harass? People to eat?”“Nope. You’re at the top of my list.”“Well, aren’t I special?

I’d rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

If you tell a lie, tell a big one.

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.