Mark Twain Had A Way Of Telling

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.

Well I Sure Had Been Looking For A Comedy For Years Without Any Success.

I Was Looking For Projects, As You Always Are, And I Read This Scene . . . And I'm In The Hollywood Hills. So I Thought, 'this Is Interesting.' You Have This Setup That Seems To Be Based In Some Reality And You Can Only Wonder Where Black's Going To Go With This.

The Trick To Being A Good Actor Is Getting So Involved In Your Character That The Camera Disappears, The 50 Bored Guys Eating Doughnuts Disappear, Friends Disappear. To Get To That Point When You Don't Have To Think About It, You're Just Acting And Reacting In Those Circumstances.

Life Is Precious, And When Someone Dies It's An Opportunity To Realise How Precious It Is. My Brother Drowned When I Was 17. He Was 15. I Think I Grew From That. My Father Didn't. It Really Crushed Him.