It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

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.

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

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

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