People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Everyone has a story.

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.

I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.

For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions

I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.