History is change happening one person at a time.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Inspiration can come from anywhere, and a lot of the time, it depends on how you feel when you get up in the morning.

If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.