When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.