Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.

Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

I just wanted what was outside to be different.

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

When those nerf footballs get wet though then they actually do get heavy.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.