Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.

I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.

But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.

But tell you true, I honestly didn’t think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world’s full of them.

wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.

Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.

Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you.

Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.

Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.