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

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

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

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

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