No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.

I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.