David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

The only way to find your voice is to use it

I did masses of opiates religiously.

As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.

There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.