The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening terror. Conversely the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Actually the moment of victory is wonderful but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

Satan really is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil you learn to respect them.

As an actor you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action you have your dance.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character born for religion comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment and spiritual life begins again.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art there can be moments of God.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation for us to feel more protected.