If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Blame is for God and small children.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesnt succeed immediately.

Myth is supposed to bring us together but fantasy alienates us.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.

One is born to be a great dancer.

You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

I am an honest artist.

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.