For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks.

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.

My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

There is nothing in this world that I want or need, but you.

I'm releasing myself from the responsibility of claiming to know when something is good and when it isn't.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.