It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.