Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.
With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.
I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Sometimes brothers are in war with each other, but at the end love conquers all.