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.

By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.