One person's religion is another person's cult.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.