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.

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.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

The tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.