Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.
After I arrived in the United States, I realized that in the army, Israelis learn how to be part of something bigger than themselves.
As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.
When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.
'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.
I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.
It's a good bet that if Jesse Jackson calls something a 'civil rights issue,' it's not.
I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.
A role I would not do: cool jock. That's not something I'd be interested in doing.
Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.
It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.
I went to Juilliard, for God's sakes. I know a little something about combat.
You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
