What you really need to build a character is exactly what you don't have in the movies - time. You know, movies are like a line drawing. You have to make very quick decisions, which are, in the end instinctive. Or you make a decision to say "Well, maybe I can do that, because... Oh, that could be irritating after a while, or distracting, etc. etc." Some of it is a matter of time, always.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.