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

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

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

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.