Jeff Bridges

The interior of Jeff Bridges’s garage, in Santa Barbara, California, has the ramshackle ease of an extravagant dorm room: a tiger-print rug, a potter’s wheel, guitars, a rogue toothbrush, taped-up printouts of ideas he finds provocative or perhaps grounding (“Enlightenment is a communal experience”), and piles of books, from Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” to “Who Cares?!…