There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president.

I married her just because she looks like you.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

The Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.