It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

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

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

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.