If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

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.

You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

I think that Instagram suits me. People know I like to use it all the time.

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love, significant others come and go in your life. Your friends are it. My friends are my everything.

I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.