“If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I’m allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.”

I would like to direct.

Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

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 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.

Right now, I have to admit, that I’m more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Actors aren’t fighters. They don’t know how to throw a punch. So, there’s a lot of hitting in the face. I’d much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don’t like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.

I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

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.

If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.

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.

Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.

No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.

If you ask Americans whether they’ve been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they’ll tell you that it’s a very difficult proposition.

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.