I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.

I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.