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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.

As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.