What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.