People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

You want something enough that you’re going to hurt, then you stay, and keep it.

All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.

We only listen to what we want to hear.

Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.