There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn’t take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if...

Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, I’m finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You’re not downing a glass of wine...

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

I have no detectable hair style.

I’d rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.

I only take Viagra when I’m with more than one woman.

I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.

I’ve been in this business so long, it just doesn’t faze me. I know what’s going to happen before it happens.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

I don’t think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

I don’t even like to sleep – I feel as if there’s too much to do.

Before Footloose, the things I’d done weren’t cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

I have a natural swagger.

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we’d never hoped for!

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

Big feature films are another world.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

It’s a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it’s a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you’re told, you can...

The great thing about movies is that they’re collaborative. And the worst thing is that they’re collaborative.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

The way it looks is exactly how it was.

Well, I’m a character actor, and actually throughout my life I’ve… I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I’ve done it.

I’ve always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we’re the only life form in the galaxy.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

The majority of directors I’ve worked with didn’t know how to talk to actors.

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn’t been the manifested reception of it so far.

In this business, you’re either Brad Pitt right away, or you’re already going down the ladder.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it’s done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

We have a great job where you get to put out something positive like this that might make people think, that might make people feel.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was… a human being.

So I’m OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I heard we’ll get you a pass because we know you’re married to a black woman. You’re married to a sister so we’ll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also...

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Whether you like another band’s music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that...