Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

4 Hours, 48 Minutes and 19 Seconds here the point is that everything is possible.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

That all you got...Bub?

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.