An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

I sometimes can't do movies just for the money. I really can't. I mean, I've tried. Believe me, I'd love to just take the money and run.

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

All wish to be learned but no one is willing to pay the price.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

Repentance is belief in action.

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.