If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day.

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.

I think we can all agree this is a very important election [2016]. We don't want to see Hillary Clinton become the president of the United States.