I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

A lot of times, it gets weird when some guy is playing your dad. It feels weird to you. It feels like they're forcing sentiment. It's disgusting.