You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

The second step that comes right after taking responsibility for everything that occurs in your life is to let go of all that you do not feel good about.

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

My choices in films are spontaneous.

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.