It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

And dressed her [Madonna] up like a turkey. After I read that stuff, I thought long and hard about what one would do to dress someone up like a turkey. And I nailed it. I figured you've got to get out the Playtex glove, blow it up and put the glove over the head.

I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.