Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.