[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right..

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead..

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me..

I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be….

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who….

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else..

I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what….

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at t….

Once I got started acting I loved it..

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always….

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy..

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it..

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film..

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..

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time..

Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman?.

Believe it or not, I supported Richard Nixon on the issue of presidential privilege. How could anyone conceive of being the president of the United S….

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not..

If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier havi….

It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you ….