I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

Film is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‚title‘ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I don’t do research. I never have.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I supported Donald Trump.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.