I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.