As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.