“I think that maybe that’s my weakness, in that I don’t know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

I’m always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.

I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym.

Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn’t feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.

Through all the relationship stuff I’ve gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

I would like to direct.

Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

It’s not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that’s what I set out to do from the beginning .

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.

I’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don’t try to make me into something I’m not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can’t even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.

Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.