If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.

I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.

You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

I make movies. I'm not in politics.

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

I tried to picture a bunch of guys in blue suits running around a beachside neighborhood, knocking on doors and flashing Fed creds. That should cause a stampede of illegal aliens heading south.

God respects me when I work but loves me when I sing.

Some people are just right for you.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.

The reason men rule is because women let them.

The problem with criticism today is that is instant, constant, global and permanent.

All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.

Focus like a laser, not a flashlight