A lot of people are not meant to be together.

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.

I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.

Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us will be composed of a variety of masks, and if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity. And if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love.