When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

It's the things we love most that destroy us.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

If we find ourselves in unfamiliar circumstance, what do we do? We ought to keep calm and pray.

You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

Be happy while you live life.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].

Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God.

I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.