My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

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.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

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

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

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