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.

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

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.

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.

I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

Life’s more science-fictiony by the day.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

I'm a big comedy fan, and a fan of films.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

There is a problem here in America when it comes to police violence and gun violence, that I believe is being ignored by not giving the proper resources to communities.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?