I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

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