On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.