Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.