Henry Fonda’s son: That’s how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

I haven’t done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was...

Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

We all have children, and we’d like to say that we love them all the same, but we know that there’s one that we like a little bit more than the other.

It’s well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen’s goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy… a girl.

The fly that doesn’t want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Women’s fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It’s men’s way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy....

Definitely not a sitcom, that’s my first condition. No sitcoms.

There’s nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don’t want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

I’m very underground.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

I’m going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it....

When I started I’d fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

And I’m as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It’s sure been tough on my nails.

Once you’ve been really bad in a movie, there’s a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

There’s people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they’re going to be successes. I’ve had two or three stalkers in my life.

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

I was always very shy but my older brother, Darryl, was working and my mother couldn’t leave me home alone so I was dragged along to the studio.

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet – especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like – who are very talented.

I don’t read my own reviews and I haven’t for probably 15 years. I read other people’s reviews, though.

I don’t have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.

If there is some art involved, I’d like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

Comedy is so hard; it’s so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can’t understand either of us.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

I’ve been on sets where things weren’t relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

I’m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what’s known as brotherhood.

On the second day I was working with Susan Sarandon, and I was having a particularly tough time for some reason with this one scene.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn’t a chance to go deeply into the characters.

I think that I’ve been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I’ve spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Sometimes it’s difficult directing yourself on film because you can’t quite separate yourself from the subject.

Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.