Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

Realize that your life situation will never line up perfectly for you to start a business.

Brunch is such an odd thing. It was created by fat, lazy people who were too lazy to wake up at a reasonable hour and too fat to wait until the next proper time for dining.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.