“What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.”

There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.

Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner.

Water’s never clumsy.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‘If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.’ But if it’s open and you’re walkin’ by, feel free to say, ‘Hello.’

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.

There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.

Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos.

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn’t matter much. But people want to label everything… So I guess I seem indifferent in that way.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.

There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam.

This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.