I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

Doors of opportunity don't open, they unlock; it is up to you to turn the knob.

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.