I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.