If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.

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

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty.