The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.