Paul Dano

There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.

I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

Even when I'm alone, my life revolves around film. I think that's why I live in New York, not L.A., where it's so concentrated.

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

Your director is your main support - actors don't generally give each other advice on set, not in my experience.

I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.

As people, no matter what we are doing, your whole body is living and breathing.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.