The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

You can tell if someone really loves Books by the way they look at them, how they open and close them, how they turn the pages.

It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.

Having just had a baby, I'm not going to be thinking about my arse.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.

I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.