My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.