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I think movies do change people's hearts.
Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.
I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.
For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.
Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.
It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.
Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.
There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.
I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.
My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.
Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.
People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.
Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.
I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.
I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.