One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

Nothing beats a great smile.

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I would think, as an actor, it's just much more fun to be the bad guy.

I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

You can only see progress when you start doing something, so don't expect anything without your efforts.

Would we believe their story of the dead, when they return?

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?