Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.