Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

I come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov and then you're doing Arthur Miller in a season and no-one bats an eye.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those kinds of ways of looking at life enrich the value of life, and that is a good thing.

Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.