Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.

I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.

Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

Sometimes love cut so deep it caused terrible pain, or crossed paths with the joy of his present experiences.

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

Sometimes love don't feel like it should, you make it hurt so good.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.

But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.