I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

I can still count on one hand the number of men I've slept with.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.