I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

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

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

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

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

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.