I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction.

Those that know, do not need explanations, and those that do not, would not understand any explanations.

A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.