I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

When I'm shooting things, I'm training.

If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life.

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.