One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important to share, but often difficult to share at the same time.

The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

I guess the only thing I'd say is it ['There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] shouldn't be read as "Beyoncé is not beautiful."

I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?