Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.