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

I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

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

Eventually, if you're the train that's leaving the station, people will race to catch up with you. I think that's one of the things I've figured out. You can't wait for permission to act, you just do; then people are like, "Oh, look at that person just doing over there. Maybe I'll come join them."

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

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