I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.