We, in America, love a story – we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.
This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.
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.
Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.
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.
For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.
Each misstep leads to the next correct step.
Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own.
Democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time.
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
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.