"When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever."

"Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."

"I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't."

"I've never felt like I had anything important to say."

"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

"America, to me, is freedom."

"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."