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.

I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in; these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

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

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

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.

One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so strongly, of all the kids coming out of their house at the same time, they're all bouncing a ball at the same time, and they all go back in at the same time. A Wrinkle in Time moved me deeply.