You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.