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

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.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.

Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

Obviously I've had crushes, and I've tried to make things work with people, but it doesn't when you're away so much. I like to think, 'Don't go looking for it; it'll happen when it wants to happen.'

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until they are discovered, detained, and punished.

All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.

I'm not one of those people who holds a grudge about anything.

I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.

There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.