Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.

...it is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.

Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Before me no one would have dared dress in black

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.