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

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

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

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.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.