“I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.”

“I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.”

“People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.”

“Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.”

“In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.”

“The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.”

“I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.”

“Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?”

“I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.”