"If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that."

Absurdity, Criticism, Satire

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"If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that."

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"Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis."

Finance

"If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that."

Absurdity

"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like."

People

"Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!"

Sex

"Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane."

Death

"Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30."

Greatness

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."

Movies

"It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot."

Men

"I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no."

Old

"I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough."

Teen

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