Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

The apartments are made for eels.

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

If I had to choose a single action I guess I would say stop driving.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.