We're Consumers. We Are By-products

What Occurred To Me On [‘the Curious Case Of Benjamin Button’], And Also With The Passing Of Her Mother, Is That There's Going To Come A Time When I'm Not Going To Get To Be With This Person Anymore. I'm Not Going To Get To Be With My Children Anymore. Or Friends, People I Love And Respect. And So, If We Have A Flare-up, It Evaporates Now. I Don't Want To Waste Time Being Angry At Someone I Love.

I Grew Up In Oklahoma And Missouri, And I Just Loved Film. My Folks Would Take Us To The Drive-in On Summer Nights, And We'd Sit On The Hood Of The Car. I Just Had This Profound Love For Storytelling.

I Had A Friend Who Worked At A Hospice, And He Said People In Their Final Moments Don't Discuss Their Successes, Awards Or What Books They Wrote Or What They Accomplished. They Only Talk About Their Loves And Their Regrets, And I Think That's Very Telling.

America Is A Country Founded On Guns. It's In Our Dna. It's Very Strange But I Feel Better Having A Gun. I Really Do. I Don't Feel Safe, I Don't Feel The House Is Completely Safe, If I Don't Have One Hidden Somewhere. That's My Thinking, Right Or Wrong.

I've Had The Luxury Of Travel And, In The Luxury Of Travel, I've Seen The Detriments Of Poverty And I've Gone On To See How Easy The Cures Can Be - Cures That Cost Cents To The Richest Nations In The World.