At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.

What happened to goodbye?

I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me. I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.