I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.