If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.