I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

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.

There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they’re soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.