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

I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.