The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

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.

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.

I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing... living proof there's a God if you need a reason.