"You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them."

"When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever."

"I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed."

"Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge."

"We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed."

"A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts."

"I used to a play a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons, and that was about levels of experience; as you gained experience, you were able to deal with much greater and far more kind of global creatures."

"Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting."