“I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.”

“I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them. ”

“My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and...”

“There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K....”

“I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you f...”

“This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and Go...”

“God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.”

“nature can offer you the biggest gifts only if you are ready to accept.”

“What does it mean to be an 'open source' society? What does one mean when one says one has an 'open mind'? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It has a synergy tha...”

“The world admires wealth and velocitythese are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overe...”

“Life is too short to chase perfection, yet too long to be satisfied with mediocrity.”

“Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.”

“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”

“In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.”