In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.

Billions of people don’t practice a religion at all.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It’s just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you’re really engaged, that’s all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what’s happening in your world.

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn’t working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you’re in trouble and things aren’t flowing the way they should. It’s a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on.

There’s really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a “falling in love” moment.

People don’t understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.