Time off from the news is always something I welcome.

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.