It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

I am not imposed upon by fine words

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.