Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Where the terror is, you must go.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sense to be afraid

When you follow your thoughts you follow a ghost.

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.