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.

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

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

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

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

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.