As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.

The directors are always sharp. It's true.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.