To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

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.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

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

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.

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.