If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.

God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

Doing TV is a different kind of language.