- If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.
- I've got a lot of crazy plans.
- I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.
- I think it's great when girls are artistic.
- I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.
- I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.
- Even if I had a tuxedo I wouldn't wear it to school.
- Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.
- I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.
- I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.
- Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.
- It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.
- I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.
- I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.
- I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.
- I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.
- The one thing I've always done is to try not to over complicate anything.
- The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.
- Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.
- It's really important to go back to where you come from.
- It's harder to laugh than to cry.
- [on working with Milos Forman on Valmont (1989)] Milos was great. I was frightened of him as well. This was during the days before video assist, so there was no playback. Milos would sit directly underneath the lens of the camera and he habitually smoked two cigars a day. He carried them in a little leather case in his front pocket. But when he would watch you underneath the camera, you couldn't help but notice him. It was kinda distracting at first because he was so into it: his face would come alive after he would call action. He really hated to be on set. He loved to be in the editing room and he wasn't very kind to actors. His demeanor on set was very gruff. He wanted it his way and that was it. If you could deliver that without too much hassle, then it was no big deal. But it was great. He's a brilliant director and I was so sad to hear of his passing.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content