So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

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.

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.

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.

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

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