This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.