I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.

If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else is going to. So go for it. Find what makes you happy and do it.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.