I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

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.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.