I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
'The Nice Guys' fulfilled my 1970s fantasy.
When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.
It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.
Muscles. We're talking about muscles? They're like pets, basically, and they're not worth it. They're just not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don't, they just go away. They run away.
I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class.
When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher.
Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.
I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.
I had to keep reminding myself in 'Blue Valentine' that I was actually making a film.
I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.
I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much.
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.
If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.
I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.
It's Shane Black. He's a world unto himself. His world is so fun and crazy.
My mother had to tailor what I watched.
We should get a Roomba for our Roomba. I feel bad for it because it works tirelessly, and at night I can hear it cleaning, and I just feel bad for it.
