It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

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.

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.

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.

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotionit is the ‘Living Infinite...

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.