You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

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

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.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

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

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.