I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.

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.

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

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.

Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.

I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.

I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

All things are delicately interconnected.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.