There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.
Always do something different. Always different things.
I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.
I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.
Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.
Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.
I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.
On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.
I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point
I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut
It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.
I know for myself my big, long friendships they don't have the same problems any more, but they also-when you get together you often times just have a drink and watch football together. You're not really talking about everything so much the same way. You just need to be around each other, and yet you can look at each other and so much is said just between those minutiae- it's totally subtle is really what it is. I felt like that, you know, a life that's been so totally dramatic then becomes beauty in the fact that it's just so small.
I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite
I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way
I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
My instincts are not comedic.
At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South
When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.
