People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

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.

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.