Emilio Estevez

I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women. ”

Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. ”

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. ”

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective. ”

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be. ”

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner. ”

Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think that's when people look to film and to spirituality. ”

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. ”

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more. ”

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope. ”