In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

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.

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.