I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?