“Whatever the genre of film you’re doing and whatever the source material is, you have to adapt to the different genre, but it’s the same work, as an actor. You’re just trying to ground it in reality and find your truth in it.”

Sometimes I find myself at three o’clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I’d like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.

A lot of times, when you’re seeing something that you’ve done, you’re thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.

I like charcoal drawing a lot. I’m not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I’m on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I’m in and turn it into an art studio.

Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after a while. Every now and then I’ll say “dude” or I’ll say “bro,” and people will laugh.

When you’re doing a play, you don’t always have a practical world that you’re working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

I’m a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

If at first you don’t succeed. You can dust it off and try again. Dust yourself off and try again.

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!

I mix and match, from top to bottom.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?