You are what you are seen to be.
If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.
Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.
I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.
It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.
I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
It's great to hear someone really care for the soprano saxophone.
Horror movies scare me, because I watch them as just - I don't even watch them as an actor.
Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted, and ultimately more loving, than most. Then I began to think of a relationship between an old orphanage director and an unadoptable orphan - a kid who goes out into the world and fails and keeps coming back, so that the old guy ends up with someone he's got to keep.
It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.