I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

With knowledge grows doubt.

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

I like to keep my face "pretty" because then I won't be like oh my god, what are you doing here?

Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)

Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.