The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.