Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.
It’s difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.
The older I get, the more obvious it is that you’re not really in control of your life, you’re a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.
Time is so much a part of what makes you close to people.
Time is what creates trust.
The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.
It’s so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.
I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that’s probably my rule. But that doesn’t apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.
Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.
Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.
I’ve always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don’t care if it’s in movies or theater or whatever – if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.
I’ve always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I’ve had some desire to do something else in my life.
One of the things that’s really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don’t know. The older I get the more I wonder what’s real.
It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.
You can’t keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what’s in the next room?
I’d really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there’s this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I’m entirely suspect of that way of thinking.
If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.
We’re fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It’s a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we’re scared of, but it certainly doesn’t define us.
The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.