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

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

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.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

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

-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly, and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it

When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.

In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.