You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

Freedom is everything and Love is all the rest

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to search for who I am.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.