I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

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

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

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

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.