54 Quotes by Peter Sarsgaard

The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.

Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.

Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.

I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.