I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

I always had an actor within me.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

i know i'm something, i can do something that what you cannot. Marvelous ! yes you may be an achiever. But i'm not failure, i'm who i'm

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

Every choice you make today is the choice you’re going to live with. So, make the best choices.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'You don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.' That's the main thing. I'm very happy that it happened.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.