Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
— Jeff Bridges
The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.
Life's picking up speed.
When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
I'm not real good at romance.
I like people.
My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
I'm a pretty basic surfer.
I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
My mom wasn't a movie star.
I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.
I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.
That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.
I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.
To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
I'm a longboard guy.
You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
I never read reviews of something I want to see.
I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.
If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.
People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
I don't really think in career terms.
Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
If you're married you'll have tough times.
I'm light and airy.
As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
I haven't been to Comic-Con.
I'm kind of an idea guy.
I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
Words fall short sometimes.
I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.
We love things that are convenient.
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.
