You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.

I've never been on a cruise.

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.