My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.