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

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 major influence was my ten years older sister.

I would definitely trade clothes with Lucy Hale. Her fashion sense is right on point, and I feel like she's never afraid to take risks with her clothes.

In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny.

JavaScript: Don't judge me by my bad parts, learn the good stuff and stick with that!

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

Materialistic things bring forth some pleasurable moments, but never a sample of happiness.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so softly are soon lost in the dark primaeval forests, with their peaks of rosy granite and their stretches of granite blocks piled and poised by nature in some mood of fury.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

Connectivity is important to our state, including the opportunity for our citizens to see our legislative process at work.

With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish.

A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.

Democracy is not just the right to vote it is the right to live in dignity.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.