I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it’s alright to be happy, that you don’t have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don’t really have.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.
Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That’s what America did for the world.
Played tennis for years. But you can’t improve at tennis after you’re 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you’re a doubles player.
The camera photographs what’s there.
I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.
Financially, I’ve lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
I’m a scamp. I don’t deny it. I like myself.
I envy people of faith. I’m incapable of believing in anything supernatural.
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.
There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody’s willing to discuss.
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.
Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.
If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.
I’ve always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.
There are many directors in the middle range who’ve made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who’ve had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn’t almost totally enamored of the latter category.
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I’m probably after the directors more than anything.
For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.
I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I’d started work in animation I’d have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn’t.