I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

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

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

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.

The things you own end up owning you.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.