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People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head.

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.