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.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

I'm very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Evil is only good perverted.

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

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

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying It was worth being a bubble just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.

The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.

While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'