My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

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

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.