I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There is so much in the world to care about.

Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

I hope you're golfing today.

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Notice the difference: A child’s disability is the focus in traditional classroom settings, but his abilities are the focus in the homeschool environment.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.

I'm a United States senator, and I have a responsibility to the people of my state - also to the people of this country.

For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class.

Not the past, not the future, life is now.