“I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.”
“You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.”
“I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.”
“With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.”
“I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.”
“I used to have terrible acne on my face: red, splotchy discoloration. And mucus - I was constantly blowing my nose. Then one day, this woman sits down next to me on a bus, and says, 'You're lactose-intolerant.' It all cleared up in three days. That changed my life. Doctors couldn't figure it out.”
“We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.”
“I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.”
“'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.”
“The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.”