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

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.

I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience.

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

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."

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

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