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.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

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.