TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I tend to scare myself.

The creative hopeless.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

I love anywhere new and different. That's the fun of travel. I've always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy - sometimes in an Alfa Spider.

Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

"Nothing is as it seems" - This is an illusion.

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

I'm a John Denver freak, and I don't give a sh*t that he looks like a f***ing turkey.

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.