We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

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

It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.