'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.