I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

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