It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else’s business.
I’m magically delicious.
When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.
If you don’t give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.
It’s always a unique challenge when you’re working with somebody where English is their second language.
Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
I’ve had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You’ve got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don’t cut.
I don’t know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic – a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.
At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, ‘Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,’ we invariably choose the money.
There’s something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.
Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.
I can’t tell you how many times in the ’90s I’d meet somebody, we’d be having a nice time, and they’d sigh and go, ‘This is exactly like Before Sunrise.’ And I’d have to get up and leave.
We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who’s going to be the perfect fit. It’s just not a reality.
And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process – the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.
Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that’s kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor’s job is to go down the rabbit hole.
I don’t think Emma Watson needs any advice. She’s an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.
It’s certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, ’cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that’s happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.
I’m always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren’t just dramas.
My favorite stories are human, so I’m always looking for.
Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I’m obsessed with the Air Force.