In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

Nature hides its secrets in wisdom

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.