As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.