Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet.

If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?