People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

Every director is so different from every other one.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

The gym of life has a free membership. Build powerful life-muscles through family gatherings from hell. Do you really want to be a happy, peaceful blob?

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.