Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.