Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.