I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film..

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's….

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors..

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money….

Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things ha….

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes..

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer..

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're ….

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the c….

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by ….

Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it..

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like th….

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your….

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist..

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would li….

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people..

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job..

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable..

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader..

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all..

My life is pretty simple and normal..