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.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

Everyone responds to kindness.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

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.

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.