Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.