I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.