"You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose." ― Joaquin Phoenix Topic(s): Movies More From Joaquin Phoenix "I don’t really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn’t really matter to me at all." "You’re always thinking, What’s the next move – the career, the money." "I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract." More In Movies "People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live."― Martin Yan "But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."― Kevin Kelly "And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‘my way or the highway’ approach that was evident in the previous eight years."― Madeleine Albright