As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

The beliefs you hold strongly in your mind will become your dreams and in time become your reality.

the romance of solitude and small places, the blurring of identity.

You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

If we are to succeed we must communicate.

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

The Democrats right now are living in an alternative universe.

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.