People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

I tend to read non-fiction.

How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.