“If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.”
“Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.”
“Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.”
“I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.”
“I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.”
“But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.”
“Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.”
“I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.”
“I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.”
“Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.”
“I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?”
“I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.”
“To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.”
“And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.”