Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will.

When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.