Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

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

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

My son is a gentleman and a professional who is pursuing something difficult. Yet the only thing he has ever asked me for is advice - never favors. He has just said, "What do you think I should do, Dad?" It's extraordinary to me that my son would listen to and have faith in whatever wisdom I can offer.

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.