It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve...

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.

Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

Each misstep leads to the next correct step.