Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it’s what you want to do and it’s within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.
I’ve become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don’t I just learn another language for a movie?
I’m superstitious a little bit.
Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.
I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.
I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it’s not real blood. I mean that’s enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.
Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.
I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
They’re the darkest people I know, comedians.
Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.
When I walk into a screening, I’m nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that’s what matters to me the most.
Being a star doesn’t last. That’s not what life should be about. It’s a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it’s one individual thing.
You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.
It’s funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
I’m more Baskin-Robbins style myself.
To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.
I’m a harsh critic, you know? I am.