In the end a lie is a lie.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

The problem is the Democrat Party is not Bill Clinton's party anymore.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.