There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.

I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to be able to use one's imagination and wit, physicality and musicality, conscious brain and unconscious instinct in the service of a work that has a chance to move and excite and amuse and delight people all over the world, including long after we're dead. What a noble calling! And I felt it was just there for me as a kind of given, some sort of inherited birthright-when in reality it's the most magnificent luxury.

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"