There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.

I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

When ignorance is passed down for a long time without giving it a second thought, it leads to evil because you are doing it without knowledge.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

To be a Pharisee is not to understand kingdom principles

Commitment is freedom.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.