Wisdom

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.

Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong.

It's okay to be a glowstick: Sometimes we have to break before we shine.

I am searching for an intellectual challenge. I want to keep learning, keep improving.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

The smart thing in the arts is to be other than yourself, because if you’re always trying to improve on your own qualities, you’re in danger of becoming limited.

Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

I like flawed characters very much.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

One of the great things about acting is the edge of not knowing for sure, and taking it off its pedestal as something that's masterful and perfect. You can always fail, so that's a window into being present.

Great acting is like a tightrope walk. There's no net underneath. Those really are the special moments.

I'm the last person to tell you that you need to spend a lot of money to have a good wardrobe. I've never had a ton of money, but when I do I buy classic things, and they last for years.

You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like they believe in what they are doing.

The way I did things, which might have seemed disorganized, is representative of the way engineers work. They don't get everything done neatly and cleanly; they just work the fastest and get it done.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.