My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.