Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Nick is a tobacco lobbyist who loves his job and doesn’t apologize for it, which [as a role] is exciting and fun because it’s politically incorrect and titillating you get great jokes out of it,

I would like to direct.

the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well as a fun moment.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

I always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that’s what I’m always looking for, a director that’s going to help me go places I’ve never been before.

All these people are so firm on their positions. That’s where the humor in the movie comes from, … It’s like the debate team. Nothing is rooted, everything is malleable. As soon as you start...

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

I can think of films that I’m producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject...

If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.

I’d like to do a romantic comedy.

For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It’s getting people to look at things your way. That’s the big game in life, and that’s what he’s teaching his son. That’s what he and his...

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I think Jason’s going to have a huge career,

There are different reasons to make movies.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn’t look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there’s only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

There were times on the movie where I did something one way and said, `No, Jason, I think it’s better this way,’ and he would say, `Aaron, I know comedy. Do it this way.’

Through all the relationship stuff I’ve gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.

I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

Thank You for Smoking.

Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on...

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I’m allowed to...

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subjects, (political) spin is very serious because the truth is more important than the spin. But sometimes spin...

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I’ve worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I’ve worked with… Sir Ben Kingsley.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

I think that maybe that’s my weakness, in that I don’t know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I...

It’s mostly done with smiles and being very enthusiastic. No matter what you’re saying, if you’re doing it in a likable enough way, they’ll forgive you.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author’s intention. It’s his movie. He’s the man in it.

Right now, I have to admit, that I’m more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.

You never really know as an actor; it’s completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. It all depends on how passionate you are about playing them.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.