I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.
If I don't run for a few days, I feel like my insides are dirty. The run kind of scrubs my veins and arteries, and then all starts to feel right with the world. I'm not one of those fanatical people that if I miss a run, I go nuts. But when it's something you love, you make sure you have the time to do it.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.
My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.
If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.
Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security.
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.