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

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

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.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

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

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

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.