I make movies. I'm not in politics..

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him..

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching..

The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity..

Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presiden….

Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod).

L.A. I could live without..

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals..

Nothing is true and everything is permitted..

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom..

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well..

Power wears out those who don't have it.

There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you sho….

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of ….

We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all..

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..

Perhaps... you love too fiercely..

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'.

I only invoked what you already knew..

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up..