Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

I always had an actor within me.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

Everything is true-Everything is permissible!

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

Just talk to me as a father ... not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem to remember that.

Politics is a waste of time.