When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity to tell those stories.

I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.

For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.

It's always fun watching new actors and new voices come out.

Sometimes you do things that are fundamentally built to touch the world, and you feel good when you're successful doing it, and you're disappeared when the world fails to respond, which also happens.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

It's really fun to create something that touches the world.

If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project.

The devil will suggest some activities to you to make you leave your primary goal

Cool is not an attitude - It's a state of mind

Dear Little Children, don't ever give up on your dreams.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else