I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

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.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.