In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.

Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look.

My idols are all older.

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard.

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.