I'd love to do more independent films.

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

Stop fussing over me, woman. I will be whole again shortly, and then you can resume ogling me and desiring my body.

What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid.

The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

I don't consider myself to have a style or anything, I just do what I like to do and I try to do it best!

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!