I want to have a good time myself. I don’t want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?
If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn’t quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!
But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
Are you crying? There’s no crying. There’s no crying in baseball.
In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.
Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.
Houston, we have a problem.
Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it’s the wrong reason.
The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they’re all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.
I don’t follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea.
If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn’t kill you, I’d sign up.
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you’re just living from day to day and you don’t have any real sense of yourself or where you are.
I’m lucky enough to be able to make only movies I’m interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you’re faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me.
The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.