The burden of disease falls on the poor.
There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it's just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.
The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.
In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.