I really love to make movies.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.

The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.