Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.

Fight for the rights of all

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.