Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

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

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.