I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.