Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves.

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

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.

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

I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.

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