Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

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

Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

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.