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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.