That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.