"Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work." — William Hurt

I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing.

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other.

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Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.