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.

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 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.

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

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.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

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.