I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

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.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

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

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

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.