A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

I always had an actor within me.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

One eye open. One still in a dream

God is a verb not a noun.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.

Anytime something becomes widely condemned and taboo, it will be eroticized.

I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.

I just love, I love, I love movies.

I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.