You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.