I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.

I had a great stepfather.

All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part.

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.

Every empire eventually falls.

'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.

I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

I don't look good in tights. I know that.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

Out there is nothing but possibilities.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.