I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.