I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.