It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.