Noah Quotes
How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.
Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.
A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.
I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.
I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.
I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.
I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'
I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.
Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.
It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.
I'm not really a zombie genre guy, I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on to the whole thing.
I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.
That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.
To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.
My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.
You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.
The best character types are the ones you can be creative with and totally delve into...
It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.
In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.
Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.
There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.
