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As an actor, that's the most that you can hope for - not only being part of a story, but being part of a story that matters.

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.