I can't watch completed films - my wife makes fun of me.

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.

Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

I didn't know what a Rolex cost to be honest. I'm a Seiko and Timex guy, and always have been.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.