You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Women are a problem, but if you haven’t already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.
Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they’re the only one between you and a hearse.
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California – mightily.
The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.
I believe that DVD is that which gives some hope to retaining some content in movies that will appeal to an older audience or the more sophisticated audience or the audience that doesn’t need or desire to see a movie on a Friday night.
It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I’ve made, I say to myself, ‘Oh God, why did I do this?’ and ‘Why didn’t I change that?’ and things like that.
Just because you need a quart of milk doesn’t mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.
I don’t think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, ‘Oh, look at that – look how smart I was’ or ‘What a brilliant shot that is!’ I don’t believe in that.
I’m old, I’m young, I’m intelligent, I’m stupid. My tide goes in and out.
I’m not going to call a dog “Dog.” I suppose if she were a baby you’d cal her “Person.”
Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.
Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
I don’t want to run for governor, but I don’t think anyone should put public service out of the question because that’s not what a good citizen does.
And then the conditions of safety – or lack of safety – for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
That’s all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
There’s no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.
By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son’s son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.
There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.