I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

I don't have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I've never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you're constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.