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.

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

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.

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.

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

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