All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.