I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.

Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.