If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

If I could be somebody, it'd definitely be Brad Pitt. I love the way he looks.

There's a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there's a lot of compromise that goes with that.