I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

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

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.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

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."

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.