“You can’t expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!.”

I think it’s important that we run that tension between the way things are.

Ethical systems and practices need to look good.

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

And I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who’s looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

This is just one reason why I am thrilled to be working with the UN Environment as its Goodwill Ambassador.

Food is just the greatest joy on the planet.

I don’t think it’s necessarily the right way to go about it, because I think we need to really just improve our every moment and improve our quality of life.

I’ve always been a very rebellious, philosophical person.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Music is a language of emotion.

We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It’s a perfect marriage between fact and fiction.

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling.

It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.

I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.

All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

My most important goal is to set myself up on every Sunday to have a chance to win, and I know if I do those things, then everything else will take care of itself.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.