There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

One dies the way he lives.

You cannot live with a paw in each world.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.

The kernel of the 11th house is 'the urge to become something greater than we already are'.

If we're going get back into hypotheticals, I think it does a disservice to a lot of people that sacrificed a lot.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

You know i was just thinking that it's better to die trying [to live your bravest dream] than to live sleeping.