Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.