"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.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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.

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.