Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Literature cannot be imposed it must be discovered.

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.