Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

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

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

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.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.