I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

My life certainly hasn't been ordinary: different is the word. It hasn't always been stable - except in the important things which are love and security within the family. Whenever there were strains at home, we could always communicate. The rule was that the younger you were, the louder you were allowed to scream. As the eldest, I just talked.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.