Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.