I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

We love the things we love for what they are.

See you in another life, brotha.

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children.

The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.

It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's...that's what makes us strong.