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.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don’t, I’m prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I’m much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

I didn’t go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

My childhood is completely… when I look back, it was ’50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful – sweet in every way.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

But I realize a lot of people are out there watching, a lot of young people. You have to be conscious of what you’re beaming out there.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

What’s the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it’s not that way.

I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

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.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

We all went to Kelsey’s wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other’s house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey’s and just read through some plays just...

If you know you’re going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don’t get distracted by what’s going on and focus better.

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.

I don’t think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It’s all just pretend. That’s what’s fun about it.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything… like stray cats and squirrels.