I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don’t read criticism of my stuff only because when it’s bad, it’s rough-and when it’s good, it’s not good enough.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in...

I had opportunities to be in stage productions during the school year that she wouldn’t let me do, but during the summer she gave her approval.

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open...

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

I don’t mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I’m in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and...

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

Art lies by its own artifice.

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

At the end of four years’ time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and...

I’m sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It’s my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

But usually I’ll wake up and start writing about nine o’clock. I’ll probably write for about three hours, and I’ll do that over the next month and a half.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

There’s just something about dance. It’s like a primal thing in all of us.

In terms of the character itself, I can’t really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don’t perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It’s just a matter...

My mom’s been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn’t really see my dad that much.

Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.

At 27, it’s great to get to a place where I’m not an actor for hire anymore.

What’s more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it’s not something that’s going to come to you overnight.

I don’t look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Biblical names are hot again.

I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what’s already been there – like doing stage and singing and dancing in...

We are all winners here.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I was always the second heavy.

I’m getting jobs because people like me on a show. I’ll take it. It’s nice to hear that someone like a Matt Groening is a fan of the show.

The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it’s less odd that it’s lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as...

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it’s over.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn’t looking for this kind of work at all.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there’s only so deep you can dig in that week.

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that’s out there in the world, that I can’t seem to be able to shut out, it has...

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.

I’ve had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

But I had a white cat named Mercedes, who lived to be 16, who I got on the way home from the hospital after my automobile accident.