The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

The Rolling Stones seemed very loose and wild, but when you read about them, you realize that everything they did is very deliberate.

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

If you get a personal genome, you should be able to get personal cell lines, stem cell derived from your adult tissues, that allow you to bring together synthetic biology and the sequencing so that you can repair parts of your body as you age or repair things that were inherited disorders.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason, haven't done a good job of taking care of the weak. And we were doing things that render taking care of our youth and taking care of our women and our families impossible, when our lives are taken.

'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

I've been to New Zealand, like, 25 or 30 times.

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.