Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.

I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.