Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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.
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.
I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.
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.
Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
