You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

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.

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.