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

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.

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

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.

If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

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