I think that it's always great for any actor to play somebody who breathes and lives and is just a regular guy and has faults like we all do.

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.

I guess it doesn't matter how much homework you do. When you're on set, you gotta forget it and throw it out the window and, hopefully, some magic happens.

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.

Change happens a lot more than you acknowledge...

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want.

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

If you believe, you can achieve - thats my motto!