Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

The world was healing itself.

No one can make us feel anything. We always have the authority over how we choose to feel about something. Never give anyone that much power over yourself.

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

There is no running away from a great grief.

I don't go to parties in general.

They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.