I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it.

No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation.

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.