Directing is like putting together a collage.
I’ve had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants to put you in. It’s hard to keep growing up inside the performing arts. It’s very difficult, and presents a lot of unique challenges.
I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you’re objectifying yourself in some weird way.
One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don’t have any awareness of the character.
In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
I did one sci-fi movie. I did ‘Gattaca.’ I liked ‘Gattaca’ because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.
The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big ‘Twilight Zone’ freak.
It just makes sense to remember gratitude and the place that gratitude should have in your life, and that none of us are owed these wonderful experiences, and we should always make the best of them.
My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don’t even notice it any more. It’s just my reality.
I think it’s my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I’ve learned from the actors I’ve worked with is you don’t get something for nothing. If you don’t risk looking foolish, you’ll never do anything special.
I have had so many bad auditions.
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend’s house and staying up late and watching ‘Nosferatu.’ Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don’t know if it’s just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.
I’d be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I’ve made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.
Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don’t really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?
In New York, you’ve got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they’re all on the same subway car.
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
If I do three movies in a year, I don’t feel like acting ever again.
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.