The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…

It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

I didn't support him [Paul Ryan]. I just thanked him for sending their love.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.