Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

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.

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey.

Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.

I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.