Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your ass off, there's no marketing budget except you going on every talk show. But you're seeing it all over. I mean, these disasters at NBC, with the morning show.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to be that people would be proud of the fact that they were middle class. You'd have your church and buy a house and you had a car and everything else. Now, it's really, really tough. Everybody has financial issues except for the one percent.