“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”

“Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.”

“Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think all the world's a sunny day,Oh yeah!I've got a Nikon camera, I'd love to take a photograph,so mama don't take...my Kodachrome away...”

“There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.”

“I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.”

“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.”

“Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.”

“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”

“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.”

“Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.”

“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.”