Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Violet Lynn Parker, you’d better spill or I’ll start bellowing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

Now that I have the opportunities to do a lot, I want to do less.

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .

Israel is near and dear to my heart

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

We all walk in different shoes.

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.