I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

I've been no stranger to change.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.