It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.