No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.