The apartments are made for eels.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and they'll be half-decent

You would be surprise with how much you could achieve in life, if you are willing to try, fail, learn from your failure, and try again and again until you succeed.

Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

I always wanted to perform.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.