My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.