I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.

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.

Early rejections are really tough, especially when all of your friends who you went to school with now have legitimate jobs, are getting married, having children, buying real estate, being adults. And you're still trying to figure out how to make a living doing the thing you think you love, but you're not even sure yet because you haven't even done it. It was a long road of risk and treachery.

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

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

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

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