It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.

Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

Once is more than generous for any lifetime.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.