I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

If you can see it, you can shoot it.

Timing degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.