I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

I have no idea what the next project will be and if there's a next project. I don't even know if we're all going to be here tomorrow, but I'm pretty optimistic.

I'm looking into a different actor's eyes every couple days, and I'm learning so much just to see the different processes people go through, and how their acting works for them.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

With most of the people you just communicate you don't have to talk.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Are you afraid of the good you might do?