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.

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.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.

The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.

The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?