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

It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director's ignorance. I wasn't sensitive to the fact that it's very hard to direct.

Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.