The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

The game cannot be won, only played.

If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.

The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it.

I'm starting to be a lot more comfortable with allowing people to decide for themselves and almost creating a situation that forces people to decide for themselves whether they like it or don't like it or agree with the character or disagree with the character.

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.