Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn’t want...

The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.

We don’t know what we’re writing until it just comes out. We don’t sit around crunching numbers.

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.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can’t say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had...

I like to say that I didn’t choose acting – acting chose me.

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

Music is my life.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

Now it’s a fully realized production but for the fact that we’re holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn’t and you have to by union...

I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.

If the subject matter isn’t inherently interesting – accounting comes to mind – I’ve got to make it amusing, if only to keep myself awake.

I can think of films that I’m producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject...

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

So don’t applaud. Just send me the check.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn’t get laid.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there’s even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It’s not real.

I just don’t deal with any government. I don’t deal with the United States government. When it comes to understanding humanity, they’re the worst.