"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."

"Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks."

"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."

"If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."

"In the depths of adversity, a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"The roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy."