When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

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.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

A man is only as rich as the people around him

There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

When you're happy, you don't count the years.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.