You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse.

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

Sensible people have got to work together.

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.