I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

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."

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

The most important things is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.

I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown