When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.