...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.'

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.

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

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

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

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.