Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.