It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.

I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

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