Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.
About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.
Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
American society is still puritanical.
All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.
You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.
I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.
The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.
Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.
I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare.
World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.
The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.
In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.
You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.
In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.
Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.
