I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.

The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.