I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

[Melania Trump] is a very, very strong advocate. I think she's a great representative for this country.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.