With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.

When all you have to face all life issues is the attitude forced on to you by society traditions, you will then regret not being the mad you used to be but will never be again.

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.