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

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.