In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

I became conflicted in my late teens.