Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal..

I make more movies than I see..

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well..

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’..

It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control..

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else..

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

I would rather be dead than not read.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming..

No one's going to shoot at me..

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid..

I'm most certainly not the Beatles..

Time must be explicitly managed, like money..

We don't have time to be sad.

If Russia were to do something that it could do, it looks like it might even be preparing to do, to invade Ukraine and essentially to dismember it, t….

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own..

Freedom has never been free..

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up..

You must never be afraid to go there..

I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do..