You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

• I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
• With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.
• To me, success is choice and opportunity.
• You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
• I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
• Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
• I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
• The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
• I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.