My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!

I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

Let thy power be a prayer.

Only today is real.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

There was a young girl named Ratchet.She had skill and no one could match it.She wanted to beMore stylish and carefree, But she couldn't give up her Ratchet.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.