["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy’s old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a sense that the world and its works were hostile.

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

God ever geometrizes.

My people are at the core of everything I do, and I recognize the importance of giving them the flexibility to balance work around their personal lives.

Thought is the parent of the deed.