I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American.

It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it.