The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

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.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

I think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it's not something I want to think about every day.

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.