Listen, Smile, Agree, Then Do Whatever You

But I Think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Really Got That Thing Where, If A Movie Reads Really Funny And Then Has Some Dramatic Or Violent Or Sinister Stuff In It, You Can't Forget That Primarily It Has To Be Even Funnier Than You Read It Or That Other Stuff Doesn't Work.

And I Think For A Man Whose Native Tongue Is Spanish To Be Able To Put Together A Phrase Like 'cultural Genocide' Just Speaks To How Bright He Is.

I Would Say That Among My Many Huge Emotional Miscalculations Was My Taking A Film Career For Granted. It Is The Most Awesome Privilege To Be Able To Use One's Imagination And Wit, Physicality And Musicality, Conscious Brain And Unconscious Instinct In The Service Of A Work That Has A Chance To Move And Excite And Amuse And Delight People All Over The World, Including Long After We're Dead. What A Noble Calling! And I Felt It Was Just There For Me As A Kind Of Given, Some Sort Of Inherited Birthright-when In Reality It's The Most Magnificent Luxury.

You Can't Go From A $2,000-a-night Suite At La Mirage To A Penitentiary, And Really Understand It, And Come Out A Liberal.

I Never Know When The Seeds Are Being Laid, I'm Just Like, "wow, That's A Pretty Cool Scene. Is That? Are We Laying Seeds Here?"