There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

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 the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.