I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's ….

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things..

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way..

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets..

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts..

Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh.' And then he'd get on the horse. I'….

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my pa….

I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me ….

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of ear….

You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in sh….

What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it f….

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea..

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me..

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion..

Being the youngest, I constantly have that insecurity of being the youngest, which ultimately is probably my drive. in a lot of ways. In terms of as ….

I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in preproduction or in production or postproduc….

I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's….

At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up b….

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you..