The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.
San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.
You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.
I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress. " I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.
I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The sun always shone, everybody looked healthy and wore ties and smoked in restaurants, and there were cars for everybody - except us, because I came from a lower class neighbourhood. But [in France] I realised there was a different point of view, so when I came back to America a year and a half later I was much more focused on my own country culturally and politically.
What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.
I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.