If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.