If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.

The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.

Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.