There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.

You best go about your way and have a nice day

I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.