I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.

Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

God used my year of waiting not to frustrate me, or abandon me, but to draw me into a closer relationship with Him.

A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

What I am is an encourager. I encourage all who deserve freedom to fight for that. And if you can't win by yourself, then find other people to be in solidarity with.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine.

I'm alright. I love you. I love my life. I'm always close to you.

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.