I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.

I’d rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

The seeds you are harvesting today were planted by the words of your mouth yesterday.

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment.

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Nihilism is.not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.