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

I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.