I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was like that where people say "oh, you know, that sounds so..." and we'd always go back and get every man, every ellipses in there the way these guys write it. Because not only is it saying what Michael wants the character to say but the way they all speak kind of creates this tone because it's not exactly real.