It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

I always had an actor within me.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

Scratch a “libertarian” these days, and you will find...a leftist.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome, but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home. A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight, but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.