The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.

... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a voice box.... and the balls to use it.

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered the things I have, I forgot I lost anything at all.

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect