Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

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.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

We are powerful beyond imagination.

Creativity expands the mind, stretches it beyond ordinary human comprehension, resulting in the mind being elastic and capable of transcending and discerning complex ideas.

Cling to good.

Science grows and Beauty dwindles.

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

The secret to raising children is to love them... And teach them to operate in a way you can tolerate them the best.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.