I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

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

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

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.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

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

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.