The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

When people say that entertainers should "know your place," they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.

'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.