Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

One of the great things about songwrighting

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you

It was clear that most of my insecurities originated from my need to have things be “perfect.” I wasn’t sure what bothered me more

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

Her touch was as soft as a snowflake falling onto my skin.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.