Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.