The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

The greatest enemy to fear is truth.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?