It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.