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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.