I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

Well, nobody's perfect.

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.