"When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming."

"I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s."

"I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah."

"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept."

"True wisdom begins when you realize wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

"I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great."

"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."