Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition..

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across..

It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which ….

You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go..

It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobo….

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to..

Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done..

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've go….

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic..

Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now..

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad….

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to fil….

Im always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then Im completely surprised when things I do end up being succes….

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down..

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience..

Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be..

It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy..

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera..

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room..

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technologic….