I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.

I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also look at it and go, ohhh ouch, that dialogue, whoa.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.

What happens now will not matter in the future.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

In a year's time, he's a year older.

I feel like New Zealand's a bit of an unchartered territory for me in a way.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.