A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
I'm very wary of news on television.
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
Acting is very immediate.
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.