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" I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective. "

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" All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless. "

" When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy. "

" You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to. "

" I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be. "

" I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more. "

" We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems. "

" In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world. "

" I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women. "

" You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down. "

" I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible. "

" I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work. "

" Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. "

" Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows. "

" We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there. "

" What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal. "

" This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want. "

" I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. "

" A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man. "

" My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner. "

" The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. "

" If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. "

" People are beautiful wrecks. "

" Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative. "

" Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma. "

" We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow. "

" In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that? "

" By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. "

" What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right? "

" We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone? "