If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.
The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2. 5-million budgets.
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played.
My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like, "Which is better?" At least I was trying.
If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
The first step of a journey is always the longest.