"And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me."

"This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that."

"Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody."

"I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."

"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind."

"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."

"I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."