I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.

Obviously in the close-ups we bring extras around or we do it later, but them running in and the big shots, they don't know. They're just coming out.

For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Anamorphic doesn't really lend itself to the big shots.

Shooting digitally would not have been easier. Cameras are the same size. I always shoot on film unless I have a reason not to, which I haven't had yet.

A strong woman will automatically stoptrying if she feels unwanted. She won't fix it or beg, she'll just walk away.

you catch your goal is not declare your success, But you catch your goal after your behavior with people is declare your success.

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

You must love yourself first to the soul of your aura.

Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton. And that's because they're paying attention.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.