There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

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

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

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.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.