Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

I do believe you can be attracted by somebody at first sight. We have all done it.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

I can only see right in front of me when I'm writing, you know? I never think of it as raw or personal or anything but where I'm at in the moment. But I can see it sort of after I finish.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!