If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

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.

If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.