Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

There's something grueling but very appealing about rough, to-the-bone material in a low budget context. There's less between you and the material. There are less people. There is less time. There's often less technology. You have to concentrate very intensely, and you jump in a little deeper because there's nothing in your way... but there are challenges.

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.