The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

I love ‘Donnie Brasco’ and ‘Days of Thunder,’ so after I did ‘The Skulls,’ I was like, ‘I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!’ Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.’ They asked if I wanted to do it.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.