I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

You can't handle the truth!

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.

Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?