Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.