The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."

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

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.