When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.