It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

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 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 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.

My life is never empty because my heart is always full.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

There are some people who still don't understand. But I know by the end of my fulfillment they will.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

All variables are independent.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.