My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.
I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it.
Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.
I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.
I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.
People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.
An experience like 'The West Wing' is what I would imagine - even though I've never done it - that surfing feels like. It's, like, 'Whoa! I can just stand up here and ride this without all the anxiety!'
By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.
