I don't expect every movie to be done exactly the way I would have done it.
I've suffered from low self-esteem.
Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.
Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.
My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.
What gives me strength is thinking about my children.
Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.
One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.