I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

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.

I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

We thank Thee, Lord, for happy hearts, for rain and sunny weather. We thank Thee, Lord for this our food, and that we are together. Amen.

Your ingenuity will remain dormant until it is provoked

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.

You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can’t choose to be unaffected by it

Art is doing something you really believe in.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.