I think you sometimes have to go hit rock bottom before you can grow and rebuild as a person.
In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.
I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night.
Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.
I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it's okay to spend a lot on a haircut.
I'd always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense there's something vulnerable beneath them - a shield they use to protect that vulnerable side. Finally, when they expose that soft spot, it's kind of touching.
When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you're speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you're speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.
There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.
Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.
With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.
The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.
I go down to the dive bar around the corner when I go out. I don't go to the showbiz parties.
Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.
I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
I'm not a person who needs to chit-chat between takes by any means.
I am baffled by good writing.
I don't have any tattoos.
I'd love to do a really broad comedy at some point.
A lot of people think I must be weird because of the films I've done. I get that.
On 'There Will Be Blood,' I was cast at the last minute. I had 3 and a half to 4 days to get ready for the first day. I just went for it, threw myself in there and gave it everything I had. That was just guts and instinct, not a lot of preparation.
