There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices.

Would the world be better off without people or would people be better off without money?

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

It's a natural law: You receive as much as you give.

I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.

When I wrote the script [of "Aquarius"], it seemed to hold people's interest.

Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.