Steven Weber

Steven Weber: (on news coverage) Why does idiotic minutiae that shouldn't take more than a moment to explain away continue to soak up every second of air time? Because "If it bleeds it leads" has utterly supplanted "All the news that's fit to print" and, as seems to be the ineluctable norm, profit trumps truth.

Steven Weber: (on politics and the 2008 White House race) To watch our congressional representatives duke it out in forums described as hallowed, respectable institutions but which are really no different from Astroturfed sports arenas is an exercise inducing utter incredulity. While the players are unable and unlikely to convince their opposition of their arguments, the audience in the bleachers is left to choose sides based not on facts (since what was once considered to be cold and hard is now agreed by all to be fungible) but on gut feelings, not on science and reason but on which side makes you feel safer. It's down to that, down to backing the hairier leader with the most gnarled club. Back to primal instincts.

Steven Weber: (thoughts on New York) I realize, especially after living in the Los Angeles sprawl for so long, what a small town New York is. Everyday I walk and people say hello to me, and they say, "Break a leg!" It's amazing to me. It's like living on a big campus where you see everybody everyday. It's great, but as a New Yorker, I have mostly love and a little bit of disgust for this city. I will always be a New Yorker, and always love it, especially now that it has been injured. I want to come back and nurse it. But look--summer's coming and that means the smell of bum urine and slipping on spit and garbage, and to me, that's really horrible. Not nice. You know, going on the subway and some guy without a shirt stands over you holding a strap. That, I wish, Giuliani could have outlawed. Forget the squeegee guys, make people wear shirts on the subway!