When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, 'What if that didn't bother me?' 'What if I knew exactly what he was talking about?' 'What if I didn't get excited?'

What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.

In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

I understand things that are American, for better or worse.