That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.