I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm a version of the same person.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.

When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93, ' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

My favorite body part of Kim's: heart.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.