I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

fall in lovewith your solitude

The world may take your reputation from you but it cannot take your character.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.