I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Whatever man seeks lies in his heart of love.

It was nice to borrow a slice of extra time.

I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

I think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

I think that, as a woman, it's much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.