The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

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.

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn

Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way.

Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.