When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

If we do this work now, we may save 10, 15 million lives. It gives you a lot of focus. I mean, how many things in your life can you do that have that kind of impact?

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.