The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

There's always been a celebration of what is that moment, whoever I am at that moment in my life. [It] is a very real way of looking at beauty.

Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?