Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.