I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.