The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.
I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.
If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible to anyone who may never have heard of me. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end - I don't think there's going to be any confusion there.
Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.