265 Quotes by Kevin Costner

If it’s going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

You’re just as good, and if you work harder, you can be better and you can be more than you think you can.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don’t put too much sports in it. It’s the backdrop. It’s the environment.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation’s It’s A Wonderful Life.

We really don’t rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don’t have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete.

I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk – my money, my house – to make a movie.

I don’t read as much as I’d like. I’ve been writing a lot. I’ve been doing a lot of music, but I don’t read as much as I should. I just don’t.

I don’t think I ever take huge risks, though I’m not scared of doing so.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don’t think are good for movies. They’re trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.