If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

Time is what creates trust.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.