We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.