I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.