I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was 'Apollo 13.'

I'd rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I'm growing and challenging myself all the time.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

If you think about it, for almost any moment, any mood that you might be in, there's probably a Beatles song that will address that mood, that feeling, that set of emotions. I don't know that that can be said about very many groups, if any.

Anytime you really take a close look at people who are dealing with the aging process, you're going to have a complicated reaction to what you're seeing and feeling. If you're in the middle of it, those emotions are going to be quadrupled. It's immediate, it's relatable, so it's good human drama.

I want every movie to have a big audience. I'm always hopeful that it's going to be discovered, and audiences are fantastic that way because every once in a while they surprise you. I didn't think 'Beautiful Mind' was going to be that kind of global success.

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it's fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.

I really feel like you shouldn't make a movie as a kind of exercise. You have to be all the way in.

I was never a comic book guy. I like the movies when I see them, especially the origin stories. I never felt like I could be on the set, at 3 o'clock in the morning, tired, with 10 important decisions to make, and know, intuitively, what the story needs. For me, I'd be copycatting and not inventing. I've never said yes to one.

I have the career that I want.

My brother's a blast to direct; he's one of those great characters who brings so much to every scene he's in, and we're pals.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

I think people realize I'm truly an outsider.

You don't get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump's a change agent. So am I.

The arrogance of liberal progressives is that they're just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and the Castros of the world, and if we give them all the control, and they control your life, they're going to do a great job of it. Well, it just isn't true.

It's not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here - it's Islamic terrorists.

I don't like outside group ads. I don't like attack ads. I particularly don't like them now that I'm in the process and they are being used against me.

What happens outside of the campaign is outside of my control.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.

If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy.

I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.

I don't think we can do anything about controlling what our climate is.

We have to get the oil where the oil is.

From my standpoint, we ought to be talking about... how do you make Wisconsin a more attractive place for risk-taking, business investment, business expansion.

Far too often in the political realm, we demonize success; we demagogue against it. What we should be doing is incentivizing success.

It doesn't make any sense to continue to elect people like Ron Kind or Russ Feingold, individuals that literally are dedicated to growing the federal government.

Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures.

In Wisconsin, we have got a lot of agricultural products that are exported. We have a lot of manufacturing products that are exported. I don't want to engage in a trade war.

I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he wins.

If you're an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I'd use to try to get into this country is the refugee program.

You could establish along the zones of the coast of the Caribbean in Honduras gorgeous resorts zones. If we could help them do that, they could start rebuilding their economy.

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

You can't call ISIS the JV team. You can't say that they're contained. Sure, we've had some success, but we have not defeated them.

What you don't want to do - if you're concerned about poverty, if you're concerned about providing opportunity - you don't want to rip the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity away from people.

Many of us have felt that sense of desperation - of urgency - when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.

Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.

People oftentimes refer to me as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' So, I'm Mr. Johnson. I'm a complete outsider.

When I feel there's a door open, you always walk through it.

When I joined the Senate in January 2011, I raised my right hand, placed my left hand on the Bible, and swore a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Defending the constitutional domain of the branch of government in which I serve is an obligation of that oath.

The Obama administration's hostility to school choice programs is well known.

The outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action - or lack of action - before, during, and after the attack.

When it comes to judicial nominations, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are fond of reminding Republicans that elections have consequences.

Unlike Obama and the Senate Democrats, I respect the will of Wisconsin's voters.

For nearly five years, I worked with Marquette University Law School and helped to administrate a community crime prevention initiative called Safe Streets. We used restorative justice practices to help reduce crime and violence in the Milwaukee community.