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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Emilio Estevez

Stop

Trying

Cool

" We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need. "

" I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs. "

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

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

Emilio Estevez

Conservative

Than

" 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. "

Emilio Estevez

Thought

People

" The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift. "

" Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure. "

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

" Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think that's when people look to film and to spirituality. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Emilio Estevez

Writing

First

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

Emilio Estevez

I Believe

I Am

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" People are beautiful wrecks. "

" 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. "

" We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. "

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

Emilio Estevez

Interesting

People

" Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. "

" 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. "

Emilio Estevez

Ask

First

" Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents. "

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