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 think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

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

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

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

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