If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.

joking and laughing as they headed off to their new life

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.

Every journey has an end.

It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.