Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?

I've always wanted to race cars, even since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.

I would definitely bring silver into your holiday decor.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet

Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.