Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Writers are the ink of society

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.