What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

Do what you're doing while you're doing it.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.