One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.

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

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

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

I think movies do change people's hearts.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.