I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

Whom the gods love dies young.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.