“My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a t...” — Michael Douglas Quote

“My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we'd come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage.”

“When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.”

“The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.”

“I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.”

“When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything.”

“The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.”