Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops..." I was what you call the buzz kill.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.