A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.