I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other("Poem")

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

What we're trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.

I'd like to win an Oscar.