I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

You have to make sure there's a lock on your phone because people can hack into your Twitter so fast.

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.