We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the middle. In that confusing moment of time between my birth and my death.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.