Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.