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I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.

I'm sure they're saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the end of the day if they need me or if they need anything, I'm there for them. Family.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.

I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.

I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives.

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.

I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in.

I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.