If you’re in the position to help someone and you do it, it’s very rewarding.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I don’t care about Clinton’s haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

I’m six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It’s reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I’ll become a madman.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

I don’t know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

There’s nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Every day has been a joy on this movie,

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

A chill wind is blowing in this nation.

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

I don’t think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

There’s the theory that nudity doesn’t really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

The story (is) about the common person who is able to rise to those acts of freedom, … and oddly enough, history has not celebrated them.

I wouldn’t even get elected. I’d probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.

If I’m a commodity, it wouldn’t be a wise idea to buy stock in me – although, in the long run, maybe I’m a slow growth investment.

It’s certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you’re talking about something progressive. That’s just the nature of the industry.