If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.