I had a very modest upbringing.

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

My parents were hippies.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I had a very modest upbringing.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I'm living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London. When I go back to the countryside to visit my mother, I get out of the car, and suddenly there's great wafts of fresh air.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.

I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

Shooting a season can be a grind. It can be seven to eight months of work. Once you stop it slows down any momentum you had.

When things are good, there's nothing like getting up in the morning, issuing that press release and watching the stock pop.

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!