I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.