If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

We are all winners here.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.

When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.

The most important thing is the script.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.