I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.
The moment I walk into a room, I have kind of like the Terminator's tracking system for where the food is, and I can get there immediately.
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
The Canadian circle in L.A. is really close. There's a magnet effect where we all just huddle together somehow. It's one big Canadian family, really.
People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.
For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.
My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.
I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from; I kind of like it.
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
I have those moments with my kids and family where we try to unplug and just be in the moment. We put everything else to the side and just be there with our family.
What I learned at Miramax is that if you see where extraordinary creative talent can be brought into the family, move quickly, because if you don't, someone else will.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
