I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

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.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!