For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

Daniel in the den

He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit!

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

What am I doing as a filmmaker? What is the goal? To look for the unknown atmosphere that hasn't been described before. This is my only goal. Unknown images. Because if not, it's boring, no?

It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us.

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.