The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

I pull my power more tightly around me like a magic binky.

I remember when you could get a good, virgin meal for half the price.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.

Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

Government is dysfunctional.

Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.