There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.