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

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.

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

My face is on bubblegum wrappers now!

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.