If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.

In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.