Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

I don't like movies that are morally simple.

I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.