Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I am thankful to my physical existence on planet earth, that I completed my literary work from whatever mind I had left, before becoming mindless nonphysical.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.

Do you guys think its worse to wear a fedora or kill 15 people?

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me.

Let's face it, there's no point in running away. I will find that person myself and I will change Saet Byul's fate

In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world--there is only one you.