I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that’s just how you do it, like if you’re going to raise money for something, that’s how you do it.
The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I’m looking at an individual piece.
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what’s interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
I’m a New Yorker, you know.
People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
As an actor, I don’t have any politics. As an actor, I’m driven more by an authentic – I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
I don’t get much out of doing a red carpet.
It’s better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
People say you can’t make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.
You can’t control everything that comes to you.
You never make all things for all people and can’t always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.
Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
No, I’m not a very methodologically pure actor.
At this point in my life I’m not bent on proving anything, really.
It’s ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it’s screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that’s really stupid.