Quotes By Emilio Estevez

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

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?

You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.

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.

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

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.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

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.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

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.

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.

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.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.