People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.

Whatever people say I am, I'm not.

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.

If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.