You can't let your past hold your future hostage.
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.
You have to be prepared to think outside the box. . . Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.
When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.
Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education. . . and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.
When we run these big trade deficits and send our jobs offshore, we hold our wages down and our income down. That feeds right back into the biggest part of this whole equation, consumption. This drags GDP down as well.
An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that. "
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.