To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

I've never been on a cruise.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

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.'

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done.