Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.

We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's [Amenabar] hands.