There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Bench me or trade me.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.

I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.