"If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home."

"The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes."

"Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing."

"My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism."

"I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession."