I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.

I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.