I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

In truth, the world is a complicated place.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.