I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.

Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.