Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Let’s take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.
Don’t look at me like I’ve gotten old or something like that.
With people in high office, the old – you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.
Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.
Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.
A man’s just gotta know his limits.
I’m a firm believer in research, but I’m also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.
Things always look different from higher up.
An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.
When I look back on my life, I don’t have regrets about what I didn’t do. If I’d become a musician, it could have ruined my life.
There’s a lot of young guys coming along, but I’d like to say to the various financiers, don’t forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.
I’m suffering from oxygen deprivation. It’s overwhelming watching your career go by.
Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.
I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.
When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.
Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
I’m past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.
In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.
I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn’t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.