“The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festi...” — Paul Dano Quote

“The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it's not like a conversation.”

“There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.”

“Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.”

“I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.”

“I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.”

“The fans pay their money and, either rightly or wrongly, they get to say anything they want to you when you are at a place of work. Sometimes you just can't take it or you don't want to take it, so you give them a bit back. But once I engage in conversation with them, I then have an overhanging pressure on me.”