I don't take a scene or word for granted.

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but the stamina required and what it takes to tell a story that is this big in scope, you need a general that will bring out the best in you.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.