Jeff Bridges

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.

We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

Directing takes a lot of time.