I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think ….

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft..

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me..

I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone ab….

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction..

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love..

Creating something is all about problem-solving..

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things..

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious..

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't..

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with….

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing..

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way..

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing..

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way..

I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal co….

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film..

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable..

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote wr….

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works..

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do..