There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm a version of the same person.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having.

I want to kiss you. I want to so badly I can barely think of anything else. When you enter a room it’s my only thought, and it torments me night and day.

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.