You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

I found that you don't have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.

Well, there's two things I have criteria for doing a film: The script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's a filmmaker's medium. I like really strong directors, and so when I do a film, I'm out there to serve the director, really, which is in turn to serve the script, to serve the director cause he's the one making the film. I relied on Todd Haynes for that.