There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.
Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.
I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.
I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.
My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.
Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.
Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.
Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
The most important thing you need to know about the Pentagon is that it is not in charge of today's wars but rather tomorrow's wars.
If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.
When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.
When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.
The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
