Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.