You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

We've got to force the Democrats to get a spine. If they don't want to have a spine, we should throw them out. If they don't want to stand up for the rule of law, then I'm not a Democrat.

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

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.