It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.