You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.