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I would like to direct.
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
I'd like to do more family dramas.
There are different reasons to make movies.
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy.
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.
It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.
I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.
I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.
Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.