It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

I guess as I get older, I'm kind of getting drawn to the things that I really love the most, which is trying to figure out ways of blending politics with humor, and making it interesting. So I don't know if anybody's interested in this stuff, but I like it, so I get involved with it.

Hollywood is one of those places where, traditionally, money has come from - along with New York, Texas, Florida, Silicon Valley in northern California and the unions. But because of the Internet and the way campaigns are financed these days, you don't need traditional financing as much as you used to - and Barack Obama has tapped into that in a big way. But at the end of the day, people in Hollywood care more about [the presidency] than just the trappings of it and the surface type stuff. They care about the issues.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.