When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.'
I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.
After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.
One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.
Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.
I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.
I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?
The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
