I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good and the bad. I see them as people. I don't see them as caricatures. I try to not make them caricatures. Maybe I fail, but I try to see what' behind them. Would I play the hero? A superhero? I don't think so. But, I play good guys. There are some there, but you have to look.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I'm so nervous. I don't know what to say if I go up there.' He said, `Don't get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.'

Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.