“And then, it’s out of your control.”

Film is a time capsule.

Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it.

What guides me is to do work that’s more avant-garde – things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.

there’s always a process of getting to know one another.

I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.

So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.

Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.

I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.

It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.

How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.

Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.

Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

The world doesn’t need more people playing small. It’s time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It’s time to stop needing and start leading. It’s time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don’t exist. It’s time you started playing the game of life in a “big” way.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.