Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Definitely, there's a lot of trouble you come up against when you're acting and directing, about your performance. Sometimes it's hard to be objective about it. I will tend to get two takes and walk away. I don't belabor it, and it's important to me to have someone who says, "You know what? You should get another one, and maybe you should try it like that".

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.