What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children.

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something.

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

What a difference one person can make!

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.