I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

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.

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

You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.