It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

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

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.