Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

That's the thing about hands, I love to hold hands because it brings comfort to me to feel I'm holding onto someone I love.

Remember this: of all the commodities men trade in, information is the most valuable by far.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

People started staring at me at the supermarket and restaurants and whatnot. And I knew that I looked just like Bill Clinton.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.