I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

The truths of the one subject have already been discovered, but have not been accepted because they spell the death of the faith in the lie.

The living deserve attention, too

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.