You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it.