With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. We're all people, and go through similar emotions.

I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling.

With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Baby, the tumbleweeds can wait.

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

There's nothing more dangerous than a place that doesn't exist.

It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

It is simple, therefore it is beautiful