Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.