I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.