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

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

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

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."

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

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.