I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

Soup is cozy.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Would you like to try some cocaine?” Freud offered, “I think you will find it picks you up quite nicely.”“No thanks, ” God declined, holding his soft hands up to show his resistance.

We all have the greatest potential. Life is about finding it, embracing it and then learning to be with it in the world without fear of prejudice or judgment.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person.

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it

You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.