Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.