I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

That’s what scares me, Gideon. You don’t know what you’re worth.” “Actually, I do. Twelve bill—” “Shut up.