I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.

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

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.