I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.

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

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.