The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again... they won't give up on it.

Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.