Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.