Stuff Quotes

Somebody said that I’m a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

The more stuff I buy, the more weighed down I felt.  

I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ’cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ’cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff.