Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.