There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.

If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.