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

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

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

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

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."

When you're going to try and have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have people recognize themselves and their own street and their own house in it, well then you're aiming for the high country and it's a much bigger gamble. You can interview all the marketing gurus and the people in charge of, you know, the people you gotta fight with in order to get your seats here, and they all talk about release dates and counterprogramming. At the end of the day, it's gotta be a good movie.

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