I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.