When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

Nothing beats a great smile.

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I would think, as an actor, it's just much more fun to be the bad guy.

I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

I expect my next job to be outside government.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed

I'm hopeful that after Iraq, those in charge will think twice about taking us down that route again.

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.