The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways.

Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.

I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.

I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience