However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.