Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

I get a great high from writing.

I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

I always say the next one is my favorite.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

I don't much like looking back.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships.

In Budapest, I always had questions. What is your signature dish? They, of course, said goulash. I loved it so much and now have to figure out a way to make it at home.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

Homophobia is like racism and anti Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people to deny their humanity their dignity and personhood.

He who helps the guilty shares the crime.

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus.

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But she's just as good, whether she's pretty or not.

I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

If you want to be a different fish jump out of school.

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.

Spelling is the clothing of words, their outward visible sign, and even those who favour sweatpants in everyday life like to make a bella figura, as the Italians say “ a good impression “ in their prose.

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.