I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.