I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

I like it when stories are left open.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.