Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they’ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
There’s nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There’s something incredibly heroic about that.
You have to decide if you’re going to wilt like a daisy or if you’re just going to go forward and live the life that you’ve been granted.
I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life – people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ‘reality.’
I’ve had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I’m okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That’s what a man does.
I actually play sports better when I’m mad. Some players don’t play better when they’re mad. They lose their sense of where they’re at. I have a tendency to do better when I’m under pressure.
I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you’ve got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can’t try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O’s and all the details and the technicalities.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
I’m in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I’m in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It’s a weird vibe.
I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk – my money, my house – to make a movie.
I don’t give up. I’m a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.
We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn’t do well in the computer world.
Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.