"I have one speed, I have one gear: go!"

"I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future."

"Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever."

"But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know."

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

"Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days."

"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."

"It takes a long time to become young."