People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.