I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.

Every citizen must pray for its nation.

You cannot afford to be too busy to pray.

A sound body with a non-judgmental mind and a heart full of love is the fountain of happiness.

If you're looking for an enemy, stop imagining it's one group or another. All mankind is your enemy, including yourself.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

A success unshared is a failure.

We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.