The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

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.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

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

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

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

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.