If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people.
The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.
I'm never happier than when I'm with my family.
I live in the county where my mother was born and buried.
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.'
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit.
The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way.
I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.
I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will.
Rage with panache.
I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it.
Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances.
I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.
I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
