“I just said, “This is something to get on board with.””

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

I’ve never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

It’s a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

Because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.

You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

I’d like to do a lead action role.

It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.

In terms of what I’m looking for, I’d like to do a lead action role.

It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting.

It’s one of the most beautiful places on this planet.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off – I’d rather stay in character.

Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me.

. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.

The fact is I don’t lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.

I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.