I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Dreaming's great as long as you wake up now and again

That rotten houseboat turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.

When youre in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!

Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.