Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

I never like to tell people what they should take.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.