[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.