When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.