You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

Notice what no one else notices and you'll know what no one else knows.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.