"Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again."

"I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell."

"And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take."

"I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see."

"If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take."

"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."

"And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track."

"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."