Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

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

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

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.

Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.