What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

In a world full of automated responses be the one who responds personally!

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.