An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.