Emilio Estevez

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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