Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.