Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.