I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

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."

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

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

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

The problem is if you play enough of parts in films that are sort of more financial products than anything or films in which the girl is a thankless, thoughtless, underwritten character along the way, you're no longer the person who had something fresh or vital to offer. I think it really does start to diminish some part of you, to put yourself through things you don't really want to be doing.