“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.”
“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”
“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”
“I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.”
“I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.”
“I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.”
“I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.”
“I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.”
“I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.”
“So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.”
“The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.”
“I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.”