I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.