Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up. But you also have to educate, because people want to discover specific things about a world unlike their own - whether it's how hard it is to go to the moon or how scary it is to be on Omaha Beach.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.

I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good.