I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.