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

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.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

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.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

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.

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.