I felt very comfortable on a set - incredibly comfortable on a set, which is a real gift because that can be hugely intimidating.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

I've done a lotta big things.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

You volunteering to play Big Gulp? ~Wraith

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.