As a director you have to be careful you don’t over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

So yes, I hope to act in other people’s movies, big and small, because that’s how I make my living, really.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He’s incredible. He’s got a lot of hard-earned experience.

Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

While there’s time left, I want to do different kinds of things.

There’s always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don’t care how much money you make, where you live… and that’s something this film speaks to.

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

I never took my SAT’s. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I’m sitting here talking to...

You’re not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents’ generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents’ generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift...

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

It’s really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you don’t know if you’re going to resonate with people or not.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

I’ve spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what’s going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.

You never really know as an actor; it’s completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

If you’re going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you’re going to blow it, blow it big.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We’d like to be kids...

Education is the key. But it’s the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don’t have it.

I’ve dodged bullets but there’s no scandal in my life.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it’ll all be forgotten.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don’t really focus on celebrity status.

I feel responsible; I feel I’ve got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

Let’s be real: It’s just TV; it’s just entertainment.

I’m a real bore.

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a...

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

Dream as if you’ll live forever; live as if you’ll die tomorrow.

I’m blown away by the graphical detail of today’s games. I can’t imagine that it’s going to get any better, but it’s just going to continually progress and soon we’ll be living in that world.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it’s not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that’s no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that’s just mean. It’s a tactic.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

If I’m in a situation where someone doesn’t recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I’m not used to it.

Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we’ll see them showing up in all the theatres.

A woman doesn’t just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

I’ll look at the script and I’ll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to support her, so she didn’t want to alienate me.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

If you’re older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to...