With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.