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

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

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

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

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

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.

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.