I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you look at the portrayal of Arabic people in Hollywood films, it's just appalling. They've always been just the easiest of targets - along with native Africans and what have you.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.