A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.

I had three points I wanted to make. That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.

Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.