As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.

Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

I get hated a lot. That’s ok.

You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist