I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

Forever is a very long time Peter

So sweet and precious is family life.

Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.