I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

We humans progressively exterminate every support mechanism. The earth progressively degenerates toward a form of quadriplegia, completely impotent to protect all it sustains.

Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.