It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

It's impossible to give it all you got and fail unless you fail to give it all you got to do the impossible.

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.

It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.