If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

It is tempting to write the history of technology through products: the wheel

Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does.

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

Faith is an active creative force.

One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.