An interview is like a minefield..

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management..

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it..

Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, ….

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those a….

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, b….

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship..

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I gue….

I was born with a fierce need for independence..

I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words..

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always….

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed..

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero..

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again..

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect..

There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know whe….

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me..

I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turni….

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one..

From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t qu….

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 per….