Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.

LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws.

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?

He’s a man of few words except when it really counts. And when he does, every word has meaning.

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

I think [Bashar] Assad is a bad guy, a very bad guy, all right?

Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.