It’s not about an opening weekend. It’s about a career, building a set of films you’re proud of. Period.
Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times.
I’m certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
I’m not smart enough and I don’t know enough about what’s going on.
After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I’ll never have kids. I’m going to have a vasectomy.
I don’t care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
I’m not quite sure what the santicity of marriage is.
There’s no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
Anytime there’s an actual grassroots movement that isn’t funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.
I’m always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.
Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.
For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.
It’s possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can’t make a good movie from a bad script.
Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.
It’s very easy for people to be critical of President Obama’s first term, but let’s face it, he didn’t exactly inherit the country in the best shape.
We’re picking on people we can beat.
I’ve always been an optimist.
Who would name their kid Jack with the last words ‘off’ at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
Without question, I wake every night five times.
I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.