“I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don’t see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don’t want to play the same role twice.”

You don’t really have to dress a ton of actors. You don’t really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.

To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.

My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can’t even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.

Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try – by punishing the troublesome – to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.