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

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.

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.