With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on.

I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.