If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

Whats a cult It just means not enough people to make a minority.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you dont know whats on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

I'm the biggest nerd you know. I'm a nerd, I'm a techie, and I don't have a problem with saying it.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

I could never fall in love just for money. I like my co-stars, and they are a bunch of good-looking men. But I've dated an actor. My dream man has to be a lot more than just good looking and rich!

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.