And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

Both must make tangible, immediate steps toward this vision.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.