As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

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.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.