The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'