The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.
I just like working with smart people.
Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
