Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

The roots of shame run deep.

Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

No action is safe from meaning.

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.

All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.

I train for the first shot – it’s all I need.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

I love having a little bit of bronzer of some sort and I love looking golden.

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.