With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.