You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

You really should play with someone your own size, you know.

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

It don't stop 'til the casket drop.