If you’re funny, if there’s something that makes you laugh, then every day’s going to be okay.
The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel — Saving Private Ryan
The desert, when the sun comes up…I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.
If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
At the end of the day it’s got to be a good movie, it’s got to be a funny movie, and it’s got to make people think, ‘Hey, I couldn’t have spent my time any better.’
Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
It’s always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It’s hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you’re seeing the movie, you know it’s something different.