When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

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.

I would rather rudder

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

It is beautiful to own your own destiny and be able to do what you feel in your heart. To have that and not do it? THAT is crazy to me.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.

I really love writing themes and melody.

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.