When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.