Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

...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.'

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.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...