I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

I don't like movies that are morally simple.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

Discover the diamonds in everyday life.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

When I die and they come for me bury me a g.