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

You have to pay people real money.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

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.

I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.