Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

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.

Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.