I remember watching Meryl Streep in, The River Wild. There's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd in a lot of ways. Someone pulls a gun on her I think, I'm not really fully aware of the scene and she just, she starts, you see her terrified. And then all of a sudden she starts to burst out laughing. She starts laughing. Like she can't stop laughing. Because she's terrified and she's emotional and there are no rules to what you're supposed to feel. That to me is like A number one, that's the thing I have to remind myself all the time.

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.