Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?