You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

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.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

People are beautiful wrecks.

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