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.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

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

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

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.

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.