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

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.

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.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

He was the one I wasn't looking for.

Remember! When you promise someone the moon

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max)

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.