America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

God Said: Let there be light! I said: Say please.

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.