When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that.
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.
I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?
The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
If people call my book an actor's memoir I will be very upset. I can't bear anything too literal, so it has elements of truth and elements of fiction sitting side by side.
I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.
After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.
It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'
Lady Jaye dressed me in her clothes the first day we met. The love we had was so strong, we wished we could become one. Then we thought, 'Why shouldn't we?'
In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.
I don't know if it was written off in that single line in Thor. It was given another way of looking at it. There are a couple of lines in Thor basically saying that science and magic it gets to a point where what's the difference. And I think we're continuing that.
Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.
The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.
