I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

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.

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

I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

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

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.