I'm human, just like anybody else..

When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that ….

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give mys….

My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It's the most important thing to me outside of my family.….

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks….

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call..

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me..

Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on..

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line..

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan..

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people ….

People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff.".

It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films l….

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those w….

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make….

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating..

I feel like fame is wasted on me..

You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not..

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that..

Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may b….

Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of wha….