I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.

The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.