I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

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

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.

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

So is there a difference between Democrats and Republicans? Sure. The Democrats say one thing ("Save the planet!") and then do another--quietly holding hands behind the scenes with the bastards who make this world a dirtier, meaner place. The Republicans just come right out and give the bastards a corner office in the West Wing. That's the difference.