You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.