Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.

Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.