The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

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."

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.