Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget...

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

I’m grateful to have had this, even if I felt that some of my work as an actor was better, like on The Detectives. It’s not as remembered.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and...

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

I love experiencing other people’s realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

Well, there’s much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage – as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I’m doing now – but it was interesting to...

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

An evil life is a kind of death.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

Over the years, I’ve been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I’ve tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship...

I don’t do stunts and I don’t think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don’t think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

There’s show and there’s business. Business is a whole other beat.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other’s lines, and mess with the director.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs – a personal relationship with their soul, or...

The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it’s a great project.

My problem with interviews, one day I’ll think one thing, and the next day I’ll think the exact opposite.

Once is a man’s life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

But I’m not particularly comfortable around guns.

Where you raise your children isn’t as important as how you raise your children.

Theater to me is acting but it’s more real on film.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Readers have told me how the mother, daughter, sister relationships resonate for them. They connect with the importance of female relationships.

That is the thing I’m most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage – at this stage of the game.

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us...

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that’s a cool thing. I don’t think it’s exploded or anything, but I think it’s pretty cool that it still exists, it’s...

Because it’s uncensored cable, I think we’ll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn’t been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I want you to take away the hope because that’s the thing that’s killing me.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn’t have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still...

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

I don’t know anybody who does what I do. I’m very underground.

Throughout the course of my life, I’ve been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

It’s fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would...

I don’t watch television. I’m not a TV guy.

Star 80 changed my life and my career.