The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

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

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task.