People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.

Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

What's the advantage to have hundreds of words to define stupidity, when the essence is always the same.

Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.