The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.

What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.