Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.