“And that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.”

If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it’s permanently there as a negative reminder.

And then, it’s out of your control.

I really had a blast.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

You get to know one another very quickly.

Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.

Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.

Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.

Film is a time capsule.

Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it.

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.

And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.

there’s always a process of getting to know one another.

I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.

So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.

I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.

I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.

When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

One can say everything best over a meal.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.