Running is a simple activity. Just lace up your shoes and go, one step at a time, like each breath.

Running is a brutal and emotional sport. It's also a simple, primal sport. As humans, on a most basic level, we get hungry, we sleep, we yearn for love, we run.

If we push on, we begin to feel a vague, tingling sense of who, or what, we really are. It's a powerful feeling, strong enough to have us coming back for more, again and again.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me.

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.