"I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play."

"You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies."

"I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did."

"God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money."

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."

"We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story."

"When you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."