It’s not about you. It’s about them.
What do you want me to tell Romney? I can’t tell him to do that. I can’t tell him to do that to himself. You’re crazy. You’re absolutely crazy. You’re getting as bad as Biden.
I’d like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.
I can’t do that to myself!
You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.
Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don’t know if that’s true or not.
The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.
The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.
I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you’d call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.
I haven’t been very active in politics.
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old.
The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, “That was an exciting film.”
The reason I don’t retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It’s about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.
I was drafted during the Korean War.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
I like the inspiration of the first take.
I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.