Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.