When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.