You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.