But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

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."

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

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

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.