Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

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?

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

My son is a gentleman and a professional who is pursuing something difficult. Yet the only thing he has ever asked me for is advice - never favors. He has just said, "What do you think I should do, Dad?" It's extraordinary to me that my son would listen to and have faith in whatever wisdom I can offer.

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'