A nation is an organic thing.
We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
There is no free market in oil.
There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.
I am a recovering alcoholic.
My mother is still battling alcoholism.
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
We can remake the world daily.
We all do better when we all do better.
Film, I think, is my medium.
I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.
There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
I'm a real estate guy.
I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.
