I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.

When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.

Revenge is a meal best served cold.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control