When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.