We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character.
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in...
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe so...
Movies are different from real life.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.
The career stuff is for business people.
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.
A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that...
I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.
I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.
When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'