The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

You know, ” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands.

Don't think of your goals - think FROM them. Tap into your genius.