The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

I have no idea what the next project will be and if there's a next project. I don't even know if we're all going to be here tomorrow, but I'm pretty optimistic.

I'm looking into a different actor's eyes every couple days, and I'm learning so much just to see the different processes people go through, and how their acting works for them.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

Book publishers should change the communication from best sellers to the best impacts.What matters is the impact not the sold copies.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'

Little folks become their little fate.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

I lost a button hole.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.