Quotes By Emilio Estevez

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

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.

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

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

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

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

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

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

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.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

People are beautiful wrecks.

There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?