What's great is when you're shooting at the same hotel you're living in, you finish shooting, put your stuff down, take an elevator and go to bed.

We love the quality in a person, who can see themselves clearly and isn't ashamed of who they are.

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it.

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

You'll never meet a nicer person, let alone a nicer actress, than Mary Steenburgen.

We always feel safest, I think, around the most dangerous person who's on your side, more than the nice good person who's on your side.

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.

He wasn’t looking for a soulmate. That would require having a soul to share, and he’d sold his off long ago

Happiness is best when shared. Wherever you go, make sure to leave a little happiness behind.

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

How can time be so wrong for love to come along? Catch me I'm falling for you.