You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

What you perceive might deceive you

Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.