Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Imagination is a timeless possibilities. You attract to you what you have always imagine.

Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole country.

Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story?

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of...

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

An It bag is an It bag, only if you’re unlikely to possess it.

Jesus didn't just die to forgive you, He rose to live through you.

All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.